From the monthly archives: February 2010
Joe Hallett, registered Republican, tries to help John Kasich’s “dirty little secret” by writing about it and declaring it no big deal.
However, Hallett and Riskind engage in a game of distraction in declaring Kasich a “success.”
The article begins with this question:
“How much of a role did Kasich actually play in balancing the federal budget in the late 1990s?”
Here’s Governor Strickland’s answer:
“It was the economy that brought us to a balanced budget, it was not the work of any individual,” Strickland said.
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But Strickland also correctly points out that the task [...]
Full Story... →Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate, John Kasich, has a preferred mouthpiece in the Ohio blogosphere, Jon Keeling. Jon Keeling blogs as DJ Tablesauce, is a former John Kasich staffer, and is also a Homeland Security funded consultant. Keeling today posts an image labeling all Muslims as bomb-wearing terrorists, using an edited image of the “Coexist” image commonly seen on bumper stickers.
Jon Kasich and Homeland Security consultant Jon Keeling have some explaining to do.
Full Story... →According to Fareed Zakaria “the Bush tax cuts are the single largest part of the black hole that is the federal budget deficit” and yet Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson continue to push for reducing the national deficit while simultaneously rejecting the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
For shame, indeed.
Full Story... →A few years ago Louisiana Senator David Vitter (who is married) was outed as a frequent client of a major DC prostitution ring. And while he was paying thousands of dollars to have sex with young hotties in our nation’s capital, he was also giving speeches espousing the sacredness of the pact of marriage between a man a woman – and ONLY between a man and a woman.
Not only is David Vitter is a hypocritical, homophobic fucktard – but he is also a liar, a chronic adulterer and real, honest-to-goodness asshole.
Today I read that David Vitter is up [...]
Full Story... →This kid is a natural.
Full Story... →Latest issue of the Independent is about to hit the streets, here are more pieces from this edition – I have a blurb on the District 3 county council race’s conflict of interest extravaganza, and one on the Lancer event with Jennifer Brunner. ?James has a piece on Bill Mason covering up his texting habits (could use a lawyer!), and one on Bill O’Neill’s run against Steve Latourette.
Full Story... →Getting busier all the time, which means I dip into the media political discourse less, and more briefly than before. ?Oddly, this is clarifying, particularly on the Sarah Palin narrative, and the white haired Fox News audience’s blind love of her, and all she stands for. ?I’m not the only commentator who has noticed this anti-intellectual elitism in aging conservative Republicanism.
I just happen to have grown up with these people my entire life.
When I decided to go to college and then law school, they dismissed it, and me, as “college boy”, in precisely the same tone as Sarah [...]
Full Story... →It hard not to publicly mock the poorly expressed ‘irrational exuberance’ small-town Ohio newspapers have for Republican candidates.
The Marion Star, for example, consistently comes across as Fox News meets Highlights magazine i.e. Conservative propaganda meets 4th grade reading class.
So it’s no surprise they ran with this elementary-school-reading-level headline:
Kasich supporters turn out for event
Doesn’t that just say it all?
The article opens with this beautifully insightful and politically mind-blowing sentence:
“Local supporters of John Kasich for governor turned out Thursday night at Buffalo Wild Wings…”
Mmmm… 12 mild wings, an order of [...]
Full Story... →Gomez quotes the head of the public engagement committee, which has been meeting in PRIVATE, who himself runs a company in MEDINA COUNTY.
Though the public was not invited to two meetings McShepard said his panel held before Thursday, he said members always favored openness.
What took so long to communicate that to McCafferty and Zanotti?
“I think it was a matter of it being so early in the process that we hadn’t been able to have that discussion,” McShepard said. “It was just a matter of getting our ducks in a row.”
Sadly, no. ?Not according to what [...]
Full Story... →Hard to argue with this.
Finally, the FBI needs to tie up their loose ends. If they can indict more officials on lesser charges of bribery or fraud or illegally reading emails of court officials, for example, just throwing that one out there, then those indictments should come with the others. Get it all out. With Issue 6, the goal at this point should just be to get them out of office so we can start fresh with a new slate of elected officials in the Fall.
That?s our timetable. Respect it.
We don?t want to hear about deals. [...]
Full Story... →Julie Carr Smyth’s latest article is short and sweet. No fluff. No random interviews with angry citizens. Just 111 words in 4 short paragraphs revealing two interesting facts:
1. State Senator Tim Grendell has spent the past few weeks whining and moaning about the cost of Recovery Act signs at project work sites in Ohio. He even went so far as to propose a bill banning the signs.
2. It turns out Tim Grendell has personally co-sponsored at least 74 bills that authorize memorial highway and bridge naming signs around the state payed for with taxpayer dollars.
Full Story... →Budget Watch
